Sadly I have no website to point you to that would make what has been the tradition before the last Liberal government got a hold of it more concrete.
Talk to citizens - particularly veterans - who remember the days before Chretien took over (and created the Heritage Department if memory serves, I don't recall one being there under Mulroney) and there you will find my references.
I'm sorry, but personal recollection of conversations about personal recollection isn't a reliable citation (which is good, or my citations would directly contradict yours). It doesn't have to be a website, either; I'm sure the Peace Tower flag being lowered tends to get documented somewhere other than online.
If I run across a reliable source, I'll pass it along to you.
Well, granted it won't satisfy any requirements for submitting Doctoral Thesii but it works well enough for me. But hey, don't take my word for it, go and talk to people who have been there yourself. Take a walk down to the local Legion Hall and ask them, or if you're inclined to wait until November, ask one of those vets who sell poppies what the deal is.
Somehow I doubt that something so simple and widely known as the flag-lowering protocols before the Liberal Government got their hands on them would need writing down anywhere (especially in pre-internet prevalence days) so I am not sure you'll find a definitive source for my assertions that is written down - but I wish you luck in this matter.
Actually, there are circumstances in which recollections of recollections might work for a doctoral thesis; but you're right, it's not usually seen as a reliable source of factual information, which is what I'm after.
I am also inclined to be skeptical about anyone--presumably, in this case, your sources--who describes lowering the Peace Tower flag for Remembrance Day to be a "relatively new" tradition compared to lowering it for death of the reigning UK Monarch or the sitting PM, given that the Peace Tower was opened in 1927. If the Peace Tower was opened less than eighty years ago, the tradition of flying its flag at half-mast on Remembrance Day can't exactly be "relatively new" compared to flying it at half-mast on other occasions.
Since the PMs who died in office (Sir John A. MacDonald and Sir John Thompson) did so before the construction of the Peace Tower was even started, it also leaves me skeptical of your sources. If the sitting PM died, I'd expect the flag would be lowered, but it seems to be stretching to call it a tradition when it's not happened yet.
Finally, George V didn't die until 1936, so saying that the tradition of lowering the Peace Tower flag for the death of the reigning UK Monarch is relatively new compared to the tradition of lowering it for Remembrance Day seems inaccurate.
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Talk to citizens - particularly veterans - who remember the days before Chretien took over (and created the Heritage Department if memory serves, I don't recall one being there under Mulroney) and there you will find my references.
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If I run across a reliable source, I'll pass it along to you.
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Somehow I doubt that something so simple and widely known as the flag-lowering protocols before the Liberal Government got their hands on them would need writing down anywhere (especially in pre-internet prevalence days) so I am not sure you'll find a definitive source for my assertions that is written down - but I wish you luck in this matter.
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I am also inclined to be skeptical about anyone--presumably, in this case, your sources--who describes lowering the Peace Tower flag for Remembrance Day to be a "relatively new" tradition compared to lowering it for death of the reigning UK Monarch or the sitting PM, given that the Peace Tower was opened in 1927. If the Peace Tower was opened less than eighty years ago, the tradition of flying its flag at half-mast on Remembrance Day can't exactly be "relatively new" compared to flying it at half-mast on other occasions.
Since the PMs who died in office (Sir John A. MacDonald and Sir John Thompson) did so before the construction of the Peace Tower was even started, it also leaves me skeptical of your sources. If the sitting PM died, I'd expect the flag would be lowered, but it seems to be stretching to call it a tradition when it's not happened yet.
Finally, George V didn't die until 1936, so saying that the tradition of lowering the Peace Tower flag for the death of the reigning UK Monarch is relatively new compared to the tradition of lowering it for Remembrance Day seems inaccurate.